Andrzej Krzycki

Andrzej Krzycki Herb Kotwitcz (* July 7, 1482 in Krzycko, † May 10 1537 in Skierniewice ) was the Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland. He also worked as a writer of the Renaissance.

He completed his education at the University of Bologna, where he studied under well-known humanists and began his career in 1501 in the church hierarchy. In 1512 married Barbara Zápolya King Sigismund I, then Krzycki wrote her some verses in memory of the wedding and even her secretary was in the same year.

When the king was victorious in the Battle of Orsha, he wrote again - ostensibly authored by the Queen - poem and sent it to her absent husband, following the example of Ovid's Epistolae Heroidum. In a letter to Krzycki Erasmus praised these verses extraordinary.

After the death of Queen Barbara, he continued his work at court as chancellor in the budget of Bona Sforza, Sigismund's second wife, continued. He held various offices and was able to grab lucrative sinecures, such as in 1527 the Diocese of Płock.

The order to cross to his time Reformation he was hostile to and was the occasion for him to write his most serious work of religion et Reipublicae quaerimonia. When Albrecht of Brandenburg- Ansbach, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Lutheran and was Sigismund I recognized him in 1525 as his vassal and duke of Prussia, Krzycki tried the approach of his sovereign to explain and justify in a letter to Baron Pulleon.

Most recently, he held the highest ecclesiastical official of Poland, Archbishop of Gniezno and thus that of the Primate of Poland. He also acted as a promoter of young talents such as in the case of Clement Janickis. In his last work, De Asia Dieta he criticized the Polish meetings and conventions of his time.